Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 4135
The night was dark, and Chang'an, the most powerful city in the world, was shrouded in rain. An army broke into the city from the Chunming Gate and Jinguang Gate on the east and west sides of Chang'an. Running to the Taiji Palace, chaotic footsteps and horseshoes gathered into a roar, thunder and lightning flashed in the night sky, and iron hoofs fought to shake the sky. The imperial capital of the Tang Dynasty, which had just gone through the Guanlong Mutiny and had not subsided for a long time, was once again wreaked havoc by war.

The Zuowu guards stationed in various Lifangs to guard the gates of the squares and maintain discipline have already withdrawn, but none of the people in the squares went out.Guanzhong has been a place of conquest since ancient times, and the people have long been accustomed to war scenes after going through wars, so they restrained their panic at this moment.

The news of the loss of the east and west gates quickly spread to the Taiji Palace. The civil servants and military generals who were watching the night for the late emperor could not avoid it.

After dawn, the crown prince will preside over the "big burial". He will read the sacrificial oration in public as the new king, accept worship from all officials, and confirm the names of the monarch and ministers. The king suddenly raised an army to seek a big position?
This is a great event, even more serious than the Guan Long Bing change.

Guanlong raised troops under the banner of "abolishing the reserve and establishing another", but now the king of Jin is directly rebelling...

"boom!"

With a low and muffled sound like thunder, the Six Rates of the East Palace and the Right Houwei met on the Tianjie Street outside the Taiji Palace.

Although the soldiers don't know the specific situation and only know how to obey orders, but as long as they are not fools, they probably understand what they are doing. On the one hand, the crown prince is directly under the direct line of troops. The traitor messed up the rules and ruined major events?On the other hand, Sima in the army has already read the "legacy edict" of the former emperor's succession to the king of Jin more than ten times, and he believes that the prince is a thief who steals the country, unfaithful and unfilial.
Both sides believed that they were on the side of justice, so their morale was high. They rushed into the opponent's formation with red eyes, swung their knives and guns fiercely, and completely ignored the past friendship.

The battle raged from the start.

There are two most important streets in Chang'an City. One is Zhuque Avenue, which starts from Zhuquemen at the south gate of the imperial city and goes southward to Mingdemen. They are all called "Heavenly Street", but under normal circumstances, the Suzaku Avenue running from north to south is called by its real name, while the long street running from east to west is called Tianjie.

This east-west long street is more than [-] feet wide, paved with bluestone slabs, and is extremely wide. Every time a barbarian comes to Cheng'an for the first time, he will be overwhelmed by the magnificence here, but such a wide long street cannot accommodate tens of thousands of people. Therefore, the two sides can only send thousands of people to fight fiercely outside Chengtian Gate, and the rest will be used as a reserve team to be added at any time.

With Chengtianmen as the center, the place more than a hundred meters from east to west was in chaos, with stumps flying and blood splattering for a while, like a flesh and blood mill.

……

In the Tai Chi Palace, the officials who stayed here were placed in the houses on the side of the bell tower in the Changle Gate. Not far away was the Zuo Zangku, which stocked up countless ordnance and armor, enough to equip an army of thousands of people at any time. , There is also a guard stationed here to ensure safety.

The Longshou Canal flows through it in a mighty way. Due to the heavy rain, the water level soars and almost submerges the bluestone embankment beside the canal. The sound of fighting in the sky made these officials tremble.

A gust of wind blew open the closed windows, and the strong wind blew in with rain, which wet the clothes of several officials near the windows and blew out the candles on the candlesticks. The room was pitch black, and someone hurriedly got up to look for Huozhezi couldn't be found for a while, and many people cursed and made a lot of noise.

In the darkness, someone suddenly said: "You said... Did His Majesty leave a will?"

There was a moment of silence in the room.

This question naturally draws the voices of everyone, but such sensitive remarks are usually difficult to utter, and it is easy to cause trouble for the upper body, so the government and the opposition are silent.At this moment, the prince and King Jin's army were in a bloody battle outside the palace. Such an urgent topic was naturally irresistible, so those who were looking for Huozhezi also stopped moving.

It’s best to talk in a dark environment, anyway, whoever said something can’t be seen by others, even if you can hear the voice, you can’t deny it...

After a long silence, someone interjected: "Maybe there is, otherwise, wouldn't it have been brought out long ago? The King of Hejian County, Duke Ying, these are His Majesty's most trusted ministers. As long as His Majesty leaves a will, there is absolutely nothing that cannot be hidden." reason."

Some people agree, some people think not necessarily.

"If your majesty leaves a will, it must mention the ownership of the throne. If, let's just say... If your majesty deposes the crown prince in the will, and passes the throne to the king of Jin, the king of Hejian County and the Duke of England will still respect it. Do you follow the will?"

The crowd fell silent again.

If His Majesty is still alive, let alone depose the crown prince and pass the reserve to King Jin, even if it is passed to any son at will, who would dare to object?

But His Majesty has already passed away, if the crown prince is deposed according to the will and King Jin ascends the throne, how can everyone in the East Palace be reconciled?The officials of the Eastern Palace have accompanied the crown prince through the turmoil of easy storage time after time until now, and even after the Guanlong soldiers almost wiped out the whole army and his family, how could they hand over the throne willingly?

A huge turmoil that could shake the foundation of the country is inevitable, and it is very possible that Li Daozong and Li Ji, as the leaders of the clan and court, kept the edict secret in order to maintain stability.

These two are neither the officials of the Eastern Palace nor the lineage of the King of Jin. It doesn't matter who will be the emperor. The important thing is that their own responsibilities lie in the stability of the court, the safety of the society, and how to successfully complete the change of imperial power...

Someone coughed, and his tone was a little annoyed: "If this is the case, wouldn't it be very unfair to His Royal Highness King Jin? It's no wonder that King Jin dared to raise troops. There must be such a will. Didn't make any arrangements before the day."

Everyone did not answer, but obviously this point of view is more acceptable.

Of course, this place is in the Tai Chi Palace, and it is still under the control of the prince. Some excessive words are definitely not dared to say, not to mention that no one will admit it in the dark. Even if this person cannot be found, they can all be dismissed. Home, a roll to the end.

There is a shortage of everything in the world, but there is no shortage of people waiting in line to become officials...

However, the silence in the darkness quietly gave birth to a different kind of thinking, which inevitably questioned the rationality and legitimacy of the crown prince's ascension to the throne.

The window that had been closed before suddenly opened again with a "bang", and the wind and rain rushed in. Someone exclaimed: "Who hit me on the head?"

There was an uproar.

After the windows were closed, someone blew on the torch, ignited the flames, lit the candles, and the house was suddenly bright.

The person who had exclaimed earlier covered the back of his head that was hit, lowered his head and picked up something from the ground, and asked left and right: "What is this?"

The people around saw that it was something wrapped in oiled paper. When they opened it, they saw several letters in the shape of paper. They unfolded them one by one, and they looked closely at the candlelight, and their expressions changed drastically.

One of them was shocked and pointed at the thing: "This...is this His Majesty's will?!"

"There is also a call to action from His Royal Highness King Jin to attack the prince!"

"Mother! 'Poisoning the first emperor, persecuting siblings'...Is this true?"

……

"Shut up!"

An official in purple yelled angrily, and snatched the letter with his hands: "They are all fools, and such things can be discussed in private? No matter how kind the crown prince is, he will definitely not allow anyone to slander him and destroy him. The chance to be on the throne! If you want to die, please go out and die, don't harm everyone here!"

The crowd was silent.

The official stood up and asked in a low voice, "Who discovered this thing first?"

No one answered, but three or five people by the window stepped aside, revealing a middle-aged official. The middle-aged official was downcast and terrified...

"Come with me to see the crown prince and present this thing. The crown prince is benevolent and will definitely not implicate you wantonly. Otherwise, if this matter is exposed by others, we will have nothing to argue about, and the only way to die!"

"...here."

There are many people here, this matter cannot be concealed, and this thing can appear here, there may not be someone from the King of Jin lurking in it to spread it intentionally, now it is concealed and waited until the incident happens in the future, who will believe it if you want to explain it?
The two of them pushed open the door one after the other, walked into the wind and rain, and walked quickly to the Wude Hall behind.

The atmosphere in the house is oppressive, and everyone has different thoughts.

After a long while, someone yelled angrily: "Mother! Which bastard is going to kill me? If you want to spread this stuff, you can throw it from palace to palace. Why do you spread it here? It's so vicious!"

Everyone was silent, so naturally no one said anything.

……

Inside the side hall, candles were brightly lit.

The officials of the East Palace went in and out without touching the ground, and one after another news was sent into the hall. The atmosphere in the hall was oppressive due to heavy wind and rain outside.

Originally, the "big burial" was held after dawn, even if the titles of the monarch and ministers were completely determined, and the enthronement was a certainty, who would have expected that when the "big burial" was only a few hours away, the king of Jin would actually gather the army and brazenly raise his troops?

The most disturbing thing is that Zuo Wuwei's tens of thousands of troops garrisoned Chang'an and Suwei's capital, but they all retreated without firing an arrow when they encountered the rebels attacking the city. It wasn't that Li Jing led his troops into the city decisively to block the rebels on the Tianjie Street, perhaps the Taiji Palace had already been breached by the rebels at this moment...

Li Chengqian was sitting in the hall, and in front of him there was a mountain of intelligence messages arriving from all over the city. While carefully reviewing them one by one, he was talking to Fang Jun, Ma Zhou and others who were not far in front of him, with a calm expression on his face. The Guanlong mutiny not only tempered the minds of the officials of the East Palace, but also made him, the prince, go through life and death, and his will was more than twice as strong as before?
However, when someone brought something wrapped in oiled paper to him, and stated that this was His Majesty's last edict, King Jin's call to arms, he couldn't help but suddenly change his face.

He didn't read the contents of the edict and proclamation for the first time, but was full of shock: Is this Taiji Palace really full of loopholes like a sieve?King Jin had just escaped from the city, so he drafted this proclamation in a hurry, and then the rebel army had just entered the city, and this thing spread to the Taiji Palace... Could it be that there are secret passages underground in the Taiji Palace? !

(End of this chapter)